The Tigers have led by at least eight points in the first half of all of their games except the Syracuse game this season, but Princeton is 3-4 in those contests.

Princeton is shooting .456 from the field in first halves but .416 in second halves this season while allowing opponents .387 before the break and .451 after. The Tigers are shooting .390 from beyond the arc before the break and .292 after while allowing opponents .362 from distance in the first half and .432 in the second half.

Princeton has shot .512 (44-86) from the field over its last two games against Kent State and Drexel.

Drexel's .500 field goal percentage was the second-highest of the season for a Princeton opponent after Northeastern shot .575 on Nov. 13.

Drexel's three steals against the Tigers were a season-low total for a Princeton opponent.

Princeton tried more than 20 3-pointers in each of their first three games but haven't tried 20 in any of the last five games.

The Tigers are 2-0 this season when they make at least 50 percent of their field goal tries and 1-5 when they make less than half. Princeton is 0-5 when allowing opponents to shoot 36 percent or better and 3-0 when holding them to lower than 36 percent.

All three of Princeton's wins this season have come away from Jadwin Gym. This will be Princeton's first neutral-court game of the season.

Against Fordham:

The Tigers and Rams have met 28 times in their history, but none of those meetings involve the current players from either team. Their only meeting over the last two decades was on Nov. 26, 2008, when Princeton beat Fordham 73-61 in the Bronx.

Princeton and Fordham played six times between 1904-14, once in 1929, seven times between 1942-56, 11 times between 1970-92, a home-and-home in 1988 and '89, and most recently in 2008. Princeton leads the series 17-11.

Only two Rams are from states (or countries) other than New York or its neighbors (freshman Travion Leonard, North Carolina and sophomore Luka Zivkovic, Serbia), while only two Tigers are from New Jersey or its neighbors (junior Will Barrett, Pennsylvania and sophomore Bobby Garbade, New York).

Fordham has enjoyed big rebounding advantages in each of its last two games, 42-27 over Lehigh and 54-40 over St. John's. Both were losses for Fordham, but the Tigers are 1-4 when being outrebounded this season.

Princeton will be Fordham's third Ivy League opponent this season. The Rams have a win at Penn and a loss at Harvard. They also have a loss to a team coached by a Princeton alum, Fairfield and Sydney Johnson '97.

Against the Atlantic 10:

The current Tiger seniors are 2-2 against the Atlantic 10 (2-0 Saint Joseph's, 0-1 Saint Louis, 0-1 George Washington). Princeton played three teams from that league in 2009-10, as Princeton lost at George Washington, defeated Saint Joseph's at home and lost at Saint Louis in the College Basketball Invitational. In 2010-11, in the team's most recent meeting against an Atlantic 10 team, Princeton beat Saint Joseph's in Princeton.

Entering the Season:

Princeton
was picked first in the Ivy League preseason poll, getting 16 of 17
first-place votes out of the pool of two media members from each of the
eight Ivy markets and one national writer.

Princeton
is aiming for its fourth straight 20-win season, which would be a first
since 1999. A fourth straight postseason appearance would be the first
such time since 2002.

Princeton is looking for double-digit Ivy League wins in four straight years for the first time since 2004.

Princeton
returns three starters from 2011-12, including senior center Brendan Connolly,
senior forward Ian Hummer, and junior guard T.J. Bray. In addition, the
Tigers get back junior forward Will Barrett, who started four of the
eight games in which he played last season before suffering a foot
injury, and senior forward Mack Darrow started 16 games last season as
well.

Princeton returns 11 players who saw game action last season, including
five of the seven players who played in all 32 games last season.

Hummer, a first-team All-Ivy League pick last season who has been picked
by some outside publications as the favorite for Ivy League Player of
the Year, would be the program's first Ivy League Player of the Year since Brian
Earl in 1999.

If Hummer duplicated his junior-season point total, he would reach 1,685
points, putting him in 13th place on the all-time Ivy League list. In
the last 10 seasons, only Cornell’s Ryan Wittman (2,028) has reached the
1,600-point mark in the Ivy League.

Hummer last season had more points (515) than any Tiger since Brian Taylor in 1972 (676).

If Hummer reaches second on the school scoring list, the No. 2 spot to
Bill Bradley ’65 would change twice in two years after staying the same
for 21 years.

Princeton returns 66 percent of its points from last season, even after
losing the program’s second-leading all-time scorer, Douglas Davis ’12.

Returning members of the team shot .483 from the field last year, better than the team’s overall percentage of .462 last season.

Princeton has won 17 straight Ivy League games at home, the most since the team won 26 in a row from 1996-99.

Princeton will have its first five Ivy League games at home for the
second time in three years. In 2011, the Tigers were able to use the 5-0
start toward a 12-2 Ivy finish.

Princeton
played a program-record 32 games last season for the second straight
year, making the quarterfinal of the College Basketball Invitational
last season and the Round of 64 of the NCAA Tournament in 2011.

Nearly
43 percent of the team's points last season were scored by members of
the Class of 2013, including Ian Hummer (515), Mack Darrow (223) and
Brendan Connolly (181). In the opener Saturday, the seniors had 35
percent of the points, with 12 from Hummer and eight from Connolly.

Princeton's 465 assists last season were the most since the 1999-2000 Tigers set the program record
at 505. The stat began being kept in the mid-1970s.

Milestones:

Now in 10th place on the all-time Princeton scoring list at 1,290
points, Ian Hummer is closing in on ninth place, held by Bud Haabestad '55 with 1,292 points. Geoff Petrie '70 is in eighth place at 1,321 points.
Ian Hummer is on pace to stand second in
career scoring and career field goals in program history, behind only
Bill Bradley '65, by the end of this season.
Bradley was a teammate of
Ian Hummer's father Ed Hummer '67 for one varsity season, the run to the
NCAA national semifinal in 1965.
Hummer is presently seventh on the Princeton list of career field goals made at 504. Brian Taylor '84 is next at 507, followed by Peter Campbell '62 at 516.
Hummer has 596 career rebounds, good for seventh since the stat began
being kept in 1954-55. In sixth place is Andy Rimol '74 with 617.
Hummer's 93 blocks are sixth on the program list since the stat began
being kept for the 1974-75 season. Next up are Craig Robinson '83 at 97,
Rich Simkus '83 at 98, and former teammate Kareem Maddox '11 at 108.

On the program:
Princeton leads the Ivy League with 26 Ivy championships (56 seasons)
and 24 NCAA Tournament appearances (all since 1952).
Mitch
Henderson '98, the team's Franklin C. Cappon-Edward G. Green '40 head
coach, is the 29th man to hold the job and the fourth consecutive
alumnus to do so (John Thompson III '88, Joe Scott '87, Sydney Johnson
'97).
Henderson,
who played in three NCAA Tournaments for Princeton, spent 11 years at
Northwestern under one of his former coaches at Princeton, Bill Carmody,
as an assistant coach.
Princeton
is tied for second with Kansas, and behind only North Carolina, in alumni as active Division I head
coaches. Eight Tar Heels are roaming the sidelines, while six Jayhawks and these six Tigers are
doing so: Thompson III '88 (Georgetown), Scott '87 (Denver), Johnson
'97 (Fairfield), Henderson '98 (Princeton), Chris Mooney '94 (Richmond)
and Craig Robinson '83 (Oregon State).

On Fordham: The Rams have struggled from 3-point range over the last four games, hitting at just a 19 percent clip (12 of 63); over their first five games, the Rams hit 37.2 percent of their tries (35 of 94) ... Fordham has made four NCAA Tournament appearances, in 1953, 1954, 1971 and 1992 ... Rams coach Tom Pecora is in his third season guiding Fordham after 16 seasons at Hofstra and nine as the head coach ... the tallest Ram is 6-foot-9 sophomore Ryan Canty ... Branden Frazier (15.2 ppg) and Chris Gaston (11.3 ppg) are averaging double digits in scoring for the Rams, though Gaston has not played since Nov. 13 against Robert Morris due to a knee injury ... only two Rams, Frazier and Jermaine Myers (4.8 ppg, team-high 11 steals) have started all nine games ... nine Fordham players have started at least one game this season ... Fordham is shooting just less than .400 (.397) overall from the field and just less than .300 (.299) from outside the arc ... Canty, who leads the regulars with a .582 field goal percentage, has fouled out of three of the team's nine games this season ... Bryan Smith is the team's top 3-point shooter, making 15 of 44 tries for a .341 clip.
Individual Notes
3 • Clay Wilson • G • 6-3 • So.
Scoring has increased in each of the last three games ... with 12 points against Drexel, returned to double digits for the first time since scoring 15 on five 3-pointers at Syracuse ... of his 59 field goal
tries, 49 have come from outside the arc, as have 21 of 25 FG makes ...
had a season-high four 2-point field goal attempts last time out against Drexel ... went 2 of 9 overall and 1 of 8 from 3-point range last season in 11
total games as a freshman ... averaged 27.8 points per
game as
a senior in high school, earning statewide 3A player of the year honors
in Oklahoma.
4 • Denton Koon • F • 6-8 • So.
Has started the last four games for the first starts of his career
... snapped a six-game scoring streak by going scoreless against Drexel, one game after scoring a season-high 10 points at Kent State ... made 9 of 10 FTs this
season (.900), all coming against Rutgers or Syracuse, after shooting
.583 (21-36) from the stripe last year
... only freshman to play in all 32 games last season ... had
six double-digit scoring games last season.
5 • T.J. Bray • G • 6-5 • Jr.
In his second season as Princeton's starting point
guard ... had scored in each of the first seven games this season before being held scoreless last time out against Drexel ... did
not see game action on the Spain trip due to injury ... scored
double-digit points in nine of the final 22 games last season ...
grabbed as many as eight rebounds in a game on four occasions last
season ... had three games last season with as many as seven assists and
had at least one assist in every game last season.
11 • Brian Fabrizius (fah-BREE-zee-us) • F • 6-11 • So.
Made season debut late in win at Lafayette on Nov. 24 ... saw limited
action last season, playing in six games ... hit one of the
two shots he tried last season, a 3-pointer at Dartmouth ... had a
postgraduate year at Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire after
spending high school at Hersey High in Arlington Heights, Ill.
12 • Ameer Elbuluk (el-BUE-look) • G • 5-9 • Sr.
Made season debut late in win at Lafayette on Nov. 24 ... first year on
the varsity squad after competing as a junior varsity player.
13 • Mike Washington Jr. • G • 6-3 • Fr.
Made season debut late in win at Lafayette on Nov. 24 ... averaged 17.1
points per game for his career while scoring 1,526 points
at Oak Harbor High outside Seattle ... lettered three years as a
football receiver ... father was his coach in high school.
21 • Mack Darrow (DAIR-oh) • F • 6-9 • Sr.
Has played in all eight games this season ... has scored 21 of his 23
points this season over the last three games, including a season-high
eight points at Kent State ... played
in all 32 games last season, including a stretch of 16 games in which
he started ... had eight double-digit scoring games last season ... had
four games
last season with as many as five assists, including a six-assist game at
Evansville.
22 • Chris Clement (CLEM-ent) • G • 6-2 • Jr.
From Nov. 13-24, scored in four straight games for the first time in his career ...
saw limited action over his first two seasons while playing behind
Douglas Davis '12 before getting starts in the first four games this
season ... has already surpassed career high with the four points he
scored against Northeastern, did so again with five points against
Rutgers ... scored in two games last season, making a 3-pointer against
West Alabama and a field goal against Brown.
24 • Will Barrett • F • 6-10 • Jr.
Has scored in double digits in five of eight games this season ... returned to double digits with 10 points against Drexel last time out ... before scoring 20 points in the
opener at Buffalo,
previous career high against a Division I opponent was nine points,
twice in his freshman year against Cal and Dartmouth ... scored
double-digits in three straight games (first three games this season)
for the first time in his career ... shooting .500 from 3-point range
this season (13-26) ... made
two starts as a sophomore in 2010-11 and four more starts in his
abbreviated season last year ... played 28-38 minutes in each game
during the Spain trip, getting as many as 16 points and 13 rebounds.
25
• Isaac Serwanga • G • 6-3 • Sr.
Made season debut late in win at Lafayette on Nov. 24 ... joined the varsity team this season, had competed with the junior
varsity ... has also earned letters at Princeton in football (receiver)
and track and field (jumper).
30 • Hans Brase (BRACE) • F • 6-8 • Fr.
Has scored in three straight games for the first time in his career ... was the
only freshman to play for Princeton in any of the first three
games ... had first two career field goals against Northeastern ... had a field goal against Drexel for the first time since the Northeastern game ... averaged
14 points, nine rebounds per game for the Hill School in Pennsylvania
... played the last two years there after playing at the Gaston Day
School in North Carolina ... both parents are alumni of the University
of Goettingen in Germany.
33 • Edo Lawrence • C • 7-1 • Fr.
Made season debut late in win at Lafayette on Nov. 24 ... first name is
Edward, nickname rhymes with "meadow" ... likely the tallest player in
program history at 7-foot-1 ... came to the U.S. in 2010 and prepped at
the Canterbury School in Connecticut.
34 • Ian Hummer • F • 6-7 •
Sr.
First-team All-Ivy League 2012, second-team All-Ivy League in 2011 ...
has had two
25-point games already this season, with the first one coming against
Northeastern and the second a 28-point effort at Lafayette on Nov. 24 ... had one 25-point game in each of the last two seasons
and now has two in the first seven games of this season ... leads the
team in rebounding (6.1 rpg),
leader in assists (39/4.9 apg), blocks (7/0.9 bpg) and points (15.0 ppg)
... has started every game the last three seasons
(counting 2012-13) except for senior night in 2011 ... has also
increased his points and rebounds in each season ... added three-point
shooting to his skill set last season, making 19 of 60 (.317) last
season after not trying one in his first two seasons ... had 101 assists
last season,
40 more than he had as a sophomore ... father Ed was a sophomore on the
1965 Final Four team with Bill Bradley '65 and uncle John played six
seasons in the NBA, including his first three seasons in Buffalo for the
Braves.
40 • Bobby Garbade (gar-BAYED) • C • 6-11 • Fr.
Made season debut at Syracuse on Nov. 21 in his home state of New York
... played in nine games in his rookie season ... went 3 of 5 from the
field
... scored in two games, against The College of New Jersey (four
points) and Brown (two).
44 • Brendan Connolly • C • 6-11 • Jr.
Team leader in field goal percentage at .537 ... averaging 8.6 ppg/4.8
rpg over the last five games after averaging 4.0 ppg/0.7 rpg over the
first three games ... third season as a starter ... nearly
doubled his point total from
2010-11 (98) last season, scoring 181 points ... also nearly tripled his
block
total, going from 11 as a sophomore to 27 as a junior ... career .538
shooter from the field. Tigers from the Line
Player 2012-13 Season/Career
3 Wilson 2-3 (.667)/2-3 (.667)
4 Koon 9-10 (.900)/30-46 (.652)
5 Bray 9-11 (.818)/57-86 (.663)
11 Fabrizius 0-0 (.000)/0-0 (.000)
12 Elbuluk 0-0 (.000)/0-0 (.000)
13 Washington Jr 0-0 (.000)/0-0 (.000)
21 Darrow 3-6 (.500)/88-114 (.772)
22 Clement 3-4 (.750)/7-9 (.778)
24 Barrett 16-22 (.727)/38-54 (.704)
30 Brase 4-6 (.667)/4-6 (.667)
33 Lawrence N/A
34 Hummer 19-34 (.559)/261-409 (.638)
40 Garbade 0-0 (.000)/1-2 (.500)
44 Connolly 11-18 (.611)/69-106 (.651)Individual Season & Career Highs (career highs set last game in bold)